Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a crowd of 45,000 in the stadium today at 2 o'clock a shattered Harvard team will face an unknown quantity in the form of the Texas Longhorns. Weakened by its recent game with the Army, the Crimson eleven enters this afternoon's contest minus four members of its regular forward wall, and yet is favored to win over the visiting Westeners...
...controlled companies were written down to their net asset value; all goodwill and going concern value were eliminated, also the value of insurance in force in the case of insurance companies. The result was a total asset value of only $302,117,000, a net asset value (assets minus liabilities...
Promptly bank officials and Chairman Mortimer Norton Buckner of the New York Clearing House made public statements that Chatham Phenix is in splendid condition. A statement was produced which showed that on Aug. 18 the bank had capital funds (resources minus liabilities) of $32,708,000 although since Dec. 31 its deposits had shrunk some $70,000,000. Attorney Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, director of the bank and its counsel, called all the ugly rumors lies, spoke of their "utter baselessness, sheer malignancy." He said Chatham Phenix would prosecute Mr. O'Connell to ''the very limit...
...Hitlerites" during the Congress last fortnight. Keeping obligingly in character, they shouted back: "Red slaves! Go to Moscow!" Impressively they arose during a later debate, walked out of the meeting just as dramatically as Hitlerites walked out of the Reichstag last February. Next day they walked back in, minus Leader Jabotinsky who announced he would take a six-month leave. One Revisionist, Abraham Lang, tore down a blue-&-white Zionist flag because he thought the Congress had "betrayed Zionism's ideals." He was tried last week, suspended from Zionist activities until next December. Abraham Lang wept...
...agitation subsided, was able to trace a gross error. A reporter had misread the Japanese picture-word which described the new heavenly body. The symbol for ten, or ju, is approximately that of the mathematical plus sign (+); for 1,000 or sen, approximately that of the plus-or-minus sign (±). The careless reporter had added the upper cross bar. The new "planet" is a planetoid, about 110 not 11,000 miles in diameter. It lies between Mars and Jupiter in the general orbit of the thousand-odd other planetoids (TIME, March...